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Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new is declared under Apache License 2.0. Here is the instant quick check.
Direct answer: No blocker detected. No non-commercial, copyleft or community-license restriction detected in the declared license. Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new is declared under Apache License 2.0 on the Hugging Face Hub; the LICENSIA quick check reviewed 5 metadata signals and found 5 clean and 0 flagged. Commercial use, redistribution and fine-tuned products are permitted as long as the required notices are kept. This automated summary is informational only — not legal advice; verify against the official repository before shipping.
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| Rule | Status | What the metadata says |
|---|---|---|
| License identification RULE_METADATA_001 |
✓ clean | Identified as Apache License 2.0. |
| Non-commercial restriction RULE_NONCOMMERCIAL_RESTRICTION_004 |
✓ clean | No non-commercial clause detected in the declared license. |
| Copyleft / viral obligations RULE_COPYLEFT_VIRAL_005 |
✓ clean | No copyleft or share-alike obligation detected in the declared license. |
| Community license terms RULE_LLAMA_COMMUNITY_TERMS_006 |
✓ clean | No provider community terms detected in the declared license. |
| Use-restriction policy RULE_OPENRAIL_RESTRICTIONS_007 |
✓ clean | No OpenRAIL-style behavioral restrictions detected in the declared license. |
- Standalone LICENSE file presence
- Metadata vs. documentation contradiction
- Restrictive upstream base model
- Training dataset contamination
- Revision not pinned
- Upstream license laundering
- High-risk license clauses
Model facts
| Model | Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new |
|---|---|
| Declared license | Apache License 2.0 (apache-2.0) |
| Task | automatic-speech-recognition |
| Library | transformers |
| Upstream base model | openai/whisper-small.en |
| Downloads (30 days) | 12 |
| Likes | 0 |
| Last updated | Jul 2, 2024 |
| Source | official repository on Hugging Face |
| Tags | transformers tensorboard safetensors whisper automatic-speech-recognition generated_from_trainer |
Frequently asked questions
Can I use Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new commercially?
Yes. Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new is declared under Apache License 2.0, and no non-commercial, copyleft or community-license restriction was detected in the declared metadata. Keep the required notices, and verify the official repository before shipping.
What license is Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new released under?
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How Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new compares within the Apache License 2.0 family
| Model | License family | Verdict | Downloads (30d) |
|---|---|---|---|
| sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | Apache License 2.0 | No blocker detected | 186,334,547 |
| cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2 | Apache License 2.0 | No blocker detected | 68,904,195 |
| sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | Apache License 2.0 | No blocker detected | 33,435,635 |
| google-bert/bert-base-uncased | Apache License 2.0 | No blocker detected | 29,160,167 |
| google-t5/t5-small | Apache License 2.0 | No blocker detected | 24,176,863 |
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Statistics. Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new is one of 1,000,000+ open AI models indexed by LICENSIA, with 12 downloads and 0 likes on the Hugging Face Hub. This quick check returned 5/5 metadata signals clean.
Authoritative source. The license declaration is summarized from the official Dev372/HarshDev-whisper-tiny-English_2000_new repository on Hugging Face. The SPDX identifier apache-2.0 is canonically defined at spdx.org/licenses/apache-2.0.
Verdict quote: No non-commercial, copyleft or community-license restriction detected in the declared license.
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